I couldn't finish the Rewind video because it was that bad. It seemed justified and that is ignoring the total fact it had nothing to do with actual YouTube stars.
Unless your project is very small or your management is stellar this just builds a road to disaster.
Developers who do not feel the pain of their actions are not incentivized to correct issues. In the beginning, there may be a few bright eyed engineers who take to heart the messages, but eventually that gets lost in the sea of priority. A number of things start to happen which can increase page count. It could be a hard to find bug that really only produces a few escalations, but combined with a number of those the issues can severely add up. Increasing escalations that don't get attention because individually they are not severe enough and well the operators can handle those.
Perhaps the largest issue only hinted at is the brittle nature that tends to evolve. It may take the form of circular dependencies or poorly considered dependency trees. Oh, such as taking a dependency on a tier 2 service for your tier 1 service or perhaps no one discussed the volume of traffic they would be placing on this other service. Those types of failures start to creep in when you disconnect yourself from your platform and multiple specialized teams start making changes to a cohesive whole. The reality is, despite everyone's hopes, is that living in the service keeps you connected to the details. Personally, I witnessed this type of degradation occur so severely I was likely one of maybe three people who understand the entire platform in an organization of hundreds.
The last service I helped build and design was built with the concept of "I don't want to be paged in the middle of the night." We didn't get it to that point by passing the micro issues to an oncall. No, the other teams did that and many of our pages are the result of those teams poor implementation or lifting work to our successful team.
I've seen whole operation teams nearly up and quit after development teams were completely disconnected from their projects and shouldered maintenance. It usually goes that way or you get some very battered and dedicated people who eventually trickle out until the lynch pin fails.
Pain is a great motivator to fix problems or at the very worst fix their poor alarms.
They also had a terrible period of trying to bundle a metric ton of garbage at the checkout counter. It was like, 'Hey, you know what no one likes? That thing best buy does where they offer you warranties and credit cards when you check out. Let's double that!'
I had to get a tap and die set because I may have cross threaded a nut. Eventually, I found a checkout counter that was staffed and this was after hunting through multiple levels. An older couple was in front of me and it was like they couldn't say no to anything the checkout employee asked. Credit Card? Hell yes... lets wait five minutes and fill out that form? Warranty? Can't say no to that and let's go over all the details. Magazine Subscription? Sure thing! Some other offer I can't remember? Don't forget to give us your phone number? Oh you haven't made an account!
Needless to say, I was tired of waiting 15 minutes for one customer in front of me and did not care to divulge my phone number. She goes on to tell me I won't get a warranty if I don't give them a phone number. I think to myself, I'm not sure they going to actually replace the tap if it breaks and I don't really see myself actually coming back if that happens. I eventually punch in a phone number for her and she was really upset I entered 555-555-5555. She voided my entry and wouldn't let me use it. Nevermind it is so popular there are at least 15 didn't entries for that number.
Fun fact, when they were doing rewards at the register, you could claim it towards your purchase. I had a less caring cashier one time let me use the Arizon magic 5's and I was able to redeem something like 50$ in credit.
They degradation of their tool line was almost immediate after shipping production out and redesigning for affordable. At that point, it really wasn't worth the extra cost to purchase those products when the quality was on par with every other low end brand. That was a huge theme for a while, market something cheaply made, but put a premium sticker price on it. I'm still salty over replacing components in their ratchets with plastic.
That kind of behavior erodes trust and eventually people establish a replacement or at least other conditions for how they spend their dollars. Amazon has a lot of garbage on their website and for every low end niknak there are several rebadged products.
It turns out, when you displace your customers they will take convenience over quality. It is a really huge hassle to have to dig through a ton of hot garbage to find something not terrible. Niche sights to a degree still don't compete even when they have tremendous quality. I'm personally hard pressed to divulge my credit card number to any random e-commerce website because I've seen how poorly it has been implemented.
Brick and mortar stores can exist and there are several that are still thriving. However, if you are going to sale the same things Amazon does and charge massive prices then maybe it isn't worth the short drive.
Their prices have gotten a lot better and I can say that as I actually did purchase a nice vest for the shop and a jacket just this week. I just wish my particular Sears didn't smell like mold and old cigarettes.
I'll second Happy. I absolutely thought it was going to be great going in and I wasn't really displeased. I think there were some slow parts, but they did set a really fast tempo in the first episode. It looks like there will be a season 2 as well. So awesome!
I was out of town and getting a network reconfigured. They were using the ISP router for everything and it couldn't even set fixed incoming port redirection. This was going to cause a bit of a problem and the damn thing was certainly leaking something. The off the shelf stuff these days is horrible and just meets whatever buzzword by a hair. My off the cuff solution was to attempt to find something we could at least upgrade to open-wrt or dd-wrt to get some features. That was also a challenge and managed to find something that was functional until I could ship a real solution.
Unfortunately, making a feature set certification would still likely confuse most people and I'm scratching my head as to anything most people would understand beyond 'good fer games' stamp.
Home devices went on a serious race to the bottom, but I'm a bit biased because there was virtually no place to buy anything good at the time.
They can use the really ass like smelling plastic the chinese have been using. It's like an ass factory was merged into a brick of ABS and then molded into the bargain basement shit they sent to my door step.
Not really. I think the guys around the corner building a highly efficient and flexible network stack have a tough job.
Making a trailer isn't that difficult. Just take all of the scenes that detail every bit of the plot and slap them together. Once you have something that removes any potential chance of enjoying the film then it can be called complete. In some cases, when the film is so incredibly terrible, it may be necessary to fabricate a trailer that has barely anything in common with the film. Sure, you probably should have made that movie instead, but then we wouldn't have done all of this blow.
There was never a question about Madoff going straight to scam. It wasn't until the pyramid scheme fell did he get caught.
This was just insanity and there was never an avenue for it succeed. There are no fudge lines in testing and anyone at any point could proven the product did not work. Which is what happened.
It never worked and either the people involved were criminal or criminally stupid.
I'm going to bet on a whole lot of sociopaths got together. It's still unlikely any of them will see jail time so looks like it panned out!
Do you believe that once they have the software to circumvent protections they will use it only when absolutely necessary? No, this is going to be freely available to everyone in law enforcement, their husbands/wives, friends and well some random torrent server. It will make passwords and protection a moot point overnight. Rightly destroying any credibility they have built.
This is just a bunch of hoopla to force them to write software for them. There isn't going to be anything useful on that phone and it won't bring back the dead. It's going to be in court so long that any other impending attacks will have already happened.
They also built that whole information gathering network that seems not be doing jack and shit apparently.
Apple should just lock up the usb firmware update process on the next piece of hardware. Just close out the last of the gaps and if they have to give up a few phones a year due to bricking... a small price.
I personally don't like the firehose, but maybe it's a good idea.
Years ago we tried to make topics actually work. It never really gained traction because there just isn't that much attention in those dedicated areas. Years ago we also tried tagging articles, but mods tended to be upset when we tagged many terrible articles as 'slow news day.'
Perhaps, the two could be combined to form not terribly specific communities that have a lower threshold for publishing and could be surfaced to the main page if it gets enough discussion. It's not quite a reddit implementation where communities are established with their own moderation bland, but more of a sorted version of firehost.
Right now, I don't use any of those and there are a large number of not really 'news for nerds' articles I don't care to read. Perhaps if I could just surf the 'newsfornerds.slashdot.org' or 'linux.slashdot.org' with more frequent articles then it would help both flesh out more articles and bring back a little niche.
It's something to think about... I don't really see a need to self moderated communities like reddit because of of the shit hole that can become, but realistically you need a way to lower the barrier to news aggregation. These side channels could be filled faster and maybe carry a disclaimer about the frequency of publishing.
In fairness, they did drop the tech slant and posted general fluff in order to make a wider appeal to slashvertisements.
If that isn't a monetization strategy I don't know what is!
It had the tiny (oh so small) side effect of alienating the user base they purchased. I'm sure all those hardcore fans would have been replaced with a more general consuming consumer eventually. If only there had been more time!
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I couldn't finish the Rewind video because it was that bad. It seemed justified and that is ignoring the total fact it had nothing to do with actual YouTube stars.
Unless your project is very small or your management is stellar this just builds a road to disaster.
Developers who do not feel the pain of their actions are not incentivized to correct issues. In the beginning, there may be a few bright eyed engineers who take to heart the messages, but eventually that gets lost in the sea of priority. A number of things start to happen which can increase page count. It could be a hard to find bug that really only produces a few escalations, but combined with a number of those the issues can severely add up. Increasing escalations that don't get attention because individually they are not severe enough and well the operators can handle those.
Perhaps the largest issue only hinted at is the brittle nature that tends to evolve. It may take the form of circular dependencies or poorly considered dependency trees. Oh, such as taking a dependency on a tier 2 service for your tier 1 service or perhaps no one discussed the volume of traffic they would be placing on this other service. Those types of failures start to creep in when you disconnect yourself from your platform and multiple specialized teams start making changes to a cohesive whole. The reality is, despite everyone's hopes, is that living in the service keeps you connected to the details. Personally, I witnessed this type of degradation occur so severely I was likely one of maybe three people who understand the entire platform in an organization of hundreds.
The last service I helped build and design was built with the concept of "I don't want to be paged in the middle of the night." We didn't get it to that point by passing the micro issues to an oncall. No, the other teams did that and many of our pages are the result of those teams poor implementation or lifting work to our successful team.
I've seen whole operation teams nearly up and quit after development teams were completely disconnected from their projects and shouldered maintenance. It usually goes that way or you get some very battered and dedicated people who eventually trickle out until the lynch pin fails.
Pain is a great motivator to fix problems or at the very worst fix their poor alarms.
They also had a terrible period of trying to bundle a metric ton of garbage at the checkout counter. It was like, 'Hey, you know what no one likes? That thing best buy does where they offer you warranties and credit cards when you check out. Let's double that!'
I had to get a tap and die set because I may have cross threaded a nut. Eventually, I found a checkout counter that was staffed and this was after hunting through multiple levels. An older couple was in front of me and it was like they couldn't say no to anything the checkout employee asked. Credit Card? Hell yes... lets wait five minutes and fill out that form? Warranty? Can't say no to that and let's go over all the details. Magazine Subscription? Sure thing! Some other offer I can't remember? Don't forget to give us your phone number? Oh you haven't made an account!
Needless to say, I was tired of waiting 15 minutes for one customer in front of me and did not care to divulge my phone number. She goes on to tell me I won't get a warranty if I don't give them a phone number. I think to myself, I'm not sure they going to actually replace the tap if it breaks and I don't really see myself actually coming back if that happens. I eventually punch in a phone number for her and she was really upset I entered 555-555-5555. She voided my entry and wouldn't let me use it. Nevermind it is so popular there are at least 15 didn't entries for that number.
Fun fact, when they were doing rewards at the register, you could claim it towards your purchase. I had a less caring cashier one time let me use the Arizon magic 5's and I was able to redeem something like 50$ in credit.
They degradation of their tool line was almost immediate after shipping production out and redesigning for affordable. At that point, it really wasn't worth the extra cost to purchase those products when the quality was on par with every other low end brand. That was a huge theme for a while, market something cheaply made, but put a premium sticker price on it. I'm still salty over replacing components in their ratchets with plastic.
That kind of behavior erodes trust and eventually people establish a replacement or at least other conditions for how they spend their dollars. Amazon has a lot of garbage on their website and for every low end niknak there are several rebadged products.
It turns out, when you displace your customers they will take convenience over quality. It is a really huge hassle to have to dig through a ton of hot garbage to find something not terrible. Niche sights to a degree still don't compete even when they have tremendous quality. I'm personally hard pressed to divulge my credit card number to any random e-commerce website because I've seen how poorly it has been implemented.
Brick and mortar stores can exist and there are several that are still thriving. However, if you are going to sale the same things Amazon does and charge massive prices then maybe it isn't worth the short drive.
Their prices have gotten a lot better and I can say that as I actually did purchase a nice vest for the shop and a jacket just this week. I just wish my particular Sears didn't smell like mold and old cigarettes.
I'll second Happy. I absolutely thought it was going to be great going in and I wasn't really displeased. I think there were some slow parts, but they did set a really fast tempo in the first episode. It looks like there will be a season 2 as well. So awesome!
I was out of town and getting a network reconfigured. They were using the ISP router for everything and it couldn't even set fixed incoming port redirection. This was going to cause a bit of a problem and the damn thing was certainly leaking something. The off the shelf stuff these days is horrible and just meets whatever buzzword by a hair. My off the cuff solution was to attempt to find something we could at least upgrade to open-wrt or dd-wrt to get some features. That was also a challenge and managed to find something that was functional until I could ship a real solution.
Unfortunately, making a feature set certification would still likely confuse most people and I'm scratching my head as to anything most people would understand beyond 'good fer games' stamp.
Home devices went on a serious race to the bottom, but I'm a bit biased because there was virtually no place to buy anything good at the time.
That people who look for swear words in code have too much free time and too fragile personalities.
I also wonder if this means comcast stops charging extortion fees to service providers?
Note, they are calling mobile internet rural broadband now, some of the most expensive bandwidth to purchase as a consumer.
We want to tax businesses to pay the wireless providers for their already lucrative business.
Seems like businesses don't want the hassle of creating a successful business, but would rather get subsidies from those who put in the effort.
SJWAI!
Socially acceptable norms (by an approved body), auto deplatform, automated history revision, integrated socialism and goods leveling!
All we need now is a lottery based mechanism for employment!
They can use the really ass like smelling plastic the chinese have been using. It's like an ass factory was merged into a brick of ABS and then molded into the bargain basement shit they sent to my door step.
Protestors are not exactly the brightest of folks.
They publish all of their plans online and with mediums that are happy to sale them out.
Back in my day we used to use private everything! Getting infiltrated took effort!
This isn't a one time offense.
I invite everyone to search her name, twitter and mansplaining via google. It's not a pleasant trip.
That's the kind of association companies want to avoid and she screwed up enough to get noticed.
That is like her favorite word!
Search her name and Mansplaining.
Keep that spin up and you might just achieve orbit. Perhaps would could attach you to a dynamo and get some usefulness out of you after all.
Not really. I think the guys around the corner building a highly efficient and flexible network stack have a tough job.
Making a trailer isn't that difficult. Just take all of the scenes that detail every bit of the plot and slap them together. Once you have something that removes any potential chance of enjoying the film then it can be called complete. In some cases, when the film is so incredibly terrible, it may be necessary to fabricate a trailer that has barely anything in common with the film. Sure, you probably should have made that movie instead, but then we wouldn't have done all of this blow.
I was thinking the exact same thing! Only criminals use encryption.
Normal citizens who uphold the law having nothing to hide.
There was never a question about Madoff going straight to scam. It wasn't until the pyramid scheme fell did he get caught.
This was just insanity and there was never an avenue for it succeed. There are no fudge lines in testing and anyone at any point could proven the product did not work. Which is what happened.
It never worked and either the people involved were criminal or criminally stupid.
I'm going to bet on a whole lot of sociopaths got together. It's still unlikely any of them will see jail time so looks like it panned out!
Shit, I didn't know I've been watching 10 year old movies in the theatre!
I wonder what is in production... surely they have to have planned ahead and made at least three sequels to batman vs superman.
Not today...
Well probably today...
Do you believe that once they have the software to circumvent protections they will use it only when absolutely necessary? No, this is going to be freely available to everyone in law enforcement, their husbands/wives, friends and well some random torrent server. It will make passwords and protection a moot point overnight. Rightly destroying any credibility they have built.
This is just a bunch of hoopla to force them to write software for them. There isn't going to be anything useful on that phone and it won't bring back the dead. It's going to be in court so long that any other impending attacks will have already happened.
They also built that whole information gathering network that seems not be doing jack and shit apparently.
Apple should just lock up the usb firmware update process on the next piece of hardware. Just close out the last of the gaps and if they have to give up a few phones a year due to bricking... a small price.
Out with the old and in with the old?
Seriously this is some pretty hefty garbage.
I personally don't like the firehose, but maybe it's a good idea.
Years ago we tried to make topics actually work. It never really gained traction because there just isn't that much attention in those dedicated areas.
Years ago we also tried tagging articles, but mods tended to be upset when we tagged many terrible articles as 'slow news day.'
Perhaps, the two could be combined to form not terribly specific communities that have a lower threshold for publishing and could be surfaced to the main page if it gets enough discussion. It's not quite a reddit implementation where communities are established with their own moderation bland, but more of a sorted version of firehost.
Right now, I don't use any of those and there are a large number of not really 'news for nerds' articles I don't care to read. Perhaps if I could just surf the 'newsfornerds.slashdot.org' or 'linux.slashdot.org' with more frequent articles then it would help both flesh out more articles and bring back a little niche.
It's something to think about... I don't really see a need to self moderated communities like reddit because of of the shit hole that can become, but realistically you need a way to lower the barrier to news aggregation. These side channels could be filled faster and maybe carry a disclaimer about the frequency of publishing.
Yes, we shall choose which moderators we like and purchase monthly subscriptions. Perhaps, that will unlock emojis in the moderators threads?
This subscription can be split between the moderators and /. owners.
I smell a winner.
In fairness, they did drop the tech slant and posted general fluff in order to make a wider appeal to slashvertisements.
If that isn't a monetization strategy I don't know what is!
It had the tiny (oh so small) side effect of alienating the user base they purchased. I'm sure all those hardcore fans would have been replaced with a more general consuming consumer eventually. If only there had been more time!
The old ones have awakened!
The end is nigh!
Klaatu Barada Nee.. Necktie... Necture... Nickel...
Definitely that word...
Klaatu Barada N *cough*
Ok Then!